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Angelo Bifone

Angelo Bifone

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Neuroscience

D-Index
49
Citations
8048
World Ranking
6021
National Ranking
305

Overview

Angelo Bifone is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and has contributed extensively to fields that intersect materials science, neuroscience, and medicine. Their research broadly covers various interdisciplinary areas, with publications addressing both fundamental materials studies and advanced neurobiological topics.

Their work spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Materials Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these broader fields, Bifone engages in specialized subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Geophysics

The primary topics addressed in Bifone's research reflect a focus on both materials and neuroimaging technologies, including:

  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics

Bifone has published research in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Addiction Biology
  • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent representative papers include:

  • "Anterior insula stimulation suppresses appetitive behavior while inducing forebrain activation in alcohol-preferring rats" (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • "The Brain-Gut Axis, an Important Player in Alzheimer and Parkinson Disease: A Narrative Review" (2024, Journal of Clinical Medicine)
  • "Scale-resolved analysis of brain functional connectivity networks with spectral entropy" (2020, NeuroImage)
  • "Increased network centrality of the anterior insula in early abstinence from alcohol" (2021, Addiction Biology)
  • "From a systems view to spotting a hidden island: A narrative review implicating insula function in alcoholism" (2022, Neuropharmacology)

These publications indicate a substantive focus on the neural underpinnings of addiction and brain connectivity, alongside an interest in systemic reviews addressing neurological disorders.

Collaborations are a significant element in Bifone's research environment. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Federico Gorrini
  • Rakshyakar Giri
  • Domingo Olivares-Postigo
  • Giulia Scuppa
  • Stefano Tambalo

The diversity of coauthors and interdisciplinary publication venues suggests a collaborative approach across specialized domains.

Best Publications

  • Deficient neuron-microglia signaling results in impaired functional brain connectivity and social behavior

    Yang Zhan;Rosa Chiara Paolicelli;Francesco Sforazzini;Laetitia Weinhard

  • A stereotaxic MRI template set for the rat brain with tissue class distribution maps and co-registered anatomical atlas: application to pharmacological MRI.

    Adam J. Schwarz;Anne Danckaert;Torsten Reese;Alessandro Gozzi

  • NMR of laser-polarized xenon in human blood

    A. Bifone;Y.-Q. Song;R. Seydoux;R. E. Taylor

  • Distributed BOLD and CBV-weighted resting-state networks in the mouse brain

    Francesco Sforazzini;Adam James Schwarz;Alberto Galbusera;Angelo Bifone

  • A Neural Switch for Active and Passive Fear

    Alessandro Gozzi;Apar Jain;Aldo Giovanelli;Aldo Giovanelli;Cristina Bertollini

  • In Vivo Distribution and Toxicity of PAMAM Dendrimers in the Central Nervous System Depend on Their Surface Chemistry

    Lorenzo Albertazzi;Lorenzo Albertazzi;Lisa Gherardini;Marco Brondi;Marco Brondi;Sebastian Sulis Sato;Sebastian Sulis Sato

  • The Morphology and Adhesion Mechanism of Octopus vulgaris Suckers

    Francesca Tramacere;Francesca Tramacere;Lucia Beccai;Michael Kuba;Alessandro Gozzi

  • Dominant β-catenin mutations cause intellectual disability with recognizable syndromic features

    Valter Tucci;Tjitske Kleefstra;Tjitske Kleefstra;Andrea Hardy;Ines Heise

  • Hyperpolarised xenon in biology

    Andrea Cherubini;Angelo Bifone

  • Neural correlates of cognitive control in gambling disorder: a systematic review of fMRI studies.

    Lorenzo Moccia;Mauro Pettorruso;Franco De Crescenzo;Luisa De Risio

  • Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR as a probe for blood oxygenation.

    Jan Wolber;Andrea Cherubini;Martin O. Leach;Angelo Bifone

  • Neuroimaging evidence of major morpho-anatomical and functional abnormalities in the BTBR T+TF/J mouse model of autism.

    Luca Dodero;Mario Damiano;Alberto Galbusera;Angelo Bifone

  • Differential effects of antipsychotic and glutamatergic agents on the phMRI response to phencyclidine.

    Alessandro Gozzi;Charles H Large;Adam Schwarz;Simone Bertani

  • In vivo mapping of functional connectivity in neurotransmitter systems using pharmacological MRI.

    Adam J. Schwarz;Alessandro Gozzi;Torsten Reese;Angelo Bifone

  • Community structure and modularity in networks of correlated brain activity

    Adam J. Schwarz;Alessandro Gozzi;Angelo Bifone

  • Apparatus for preparing a solution of a hyperpolarized noble gas for NMR and MRI analysis

    Alexander Pines;Thomas Budinger;Gil Navon;Yi-Qiao Song

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals different neural substrates for the effects of orexin-1 and orexin-2 receptor antagonists

    Alessandro Gozzi;Giuliano Turrini;Laura Piccoli;Mario Massagrande

  • Cholesterol-dependent macropinocytosis and endosomal escape control the transfection efficiency of lipoplexes in CHO living cells.

    Francesco Cardarelli;Daniela Pozzi;Angelo Bifone;Cristina Marchini

  • Spin-lattice relaxation of laser-polarized xenon in human blood.

    Jan Wolber;Andrea Cherubini;Andrzej S. K. Dzik-Jurasz;Martin O. Leach

  • Graph Analysis and Modularity of Brain Functional Connectivity Networks: Searching for the Optimal Threshold

    Cécile Bordier;Carlo Nicolini;Angelo Bifone

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Gozzi
Alessandro Gozzi Italian Institute of Technology
Alexander Pines
Alexander Pines University of California, Berkeley
Antonio Miotello
Antonio Miotello University of Trento
Ludovico Minati
Ludovico Minati University of Trento
Massimo Pasqualetti
Massimo Pasqualetti University of Pisa
Maria Luisa Scattoni
Maria Luisa Scattoni Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Davide Ragozzino
Davide Ragozzino Sapienza University of Rome
Alessandro Tredicucci
Alessandro Tredicucci University of Pisa
Lorenzo Albertazzi
Lorenzo Albertazzi Eindhoven University of Technology

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